I’m back…

February 3rd, 2012   No Comments »

I’m back, but where have I been?  Well, starting about the middle of December, I began going through another bout of depression, which is something that hasn’t happened to me in a very long time.  I guess it was a combination of normal holiday depression with some things that happened over the holidays that triggered it, but regardless of the cause, it lasted for well over a month before it started getting better.  The end result of it though is that I’ve gotten way behind on my e-mails and I’ve let a lot of other things slide that I shouldn’t have, and that I now need to try to dig my way out of so I can see some light and relax again.  Part of getting buried like that is that your depression becomes compounded with the fact that you know you’re not living up to your responsibilities.  Then there’s a sense of shame that creeps in, and the longer you let things go, the harder they become to go back to.  Anyone who’s experienced depression is very well aware of these feelings, and that feeling of getting buried under the things you let lag while you’re going through it.  The rest of you, at least those of an empathetic nature, I’m sure can imagine what it’s like.

So, I’m making a step right here to get back to things.  I haven’t made a blog post in a very long time, so I thought it would be a good way to make a little forward progress in motivating myself to do other things as well.  First things first.  Now that the magazine’s done, I need to get caught up on e-mails, and then I have some house cleaning to do.  Fun times huh?

I’m not sure what I was really intending to write here, but now that I’ve actually started writing, I’ve completely blanked.  I was just thinking however, that even during my most depressive of times, the one thing I treasured above all others was losing myself in a good book.  I’m really disheartened by the ever growing library of e-books and e-readers out there.  While it’s great in the sense that it gives you access to massive libraries of the written word, what’s lost, at least in my opinion, far outweighs the benefits.  You lose that ability to hold something real in your hands, and to feel the paper under your fingers as you go from one page to the next.  A book doesn’t need batteries or an AC adapter to enjoy it.  You can view it from any angle, and if the sun shines on it, there’s no reflection to blind you or obscure the text.  You can take a book anywhere, and read it anytime, and the images it creates in your mind combined with the tactile stimulus you feel as you pass slowly from page to page, combine to create a world where you can lose yourself in your own imagination, forgetting all of your problems and responsibilities, even if just for a little while.

I’ve always been an intense reader.  Often I would start on a book and literally read almost straight for twelve to eighteen hours or more until I had read it from cover to cover.  Sometimes it would be a longer book, so I’d sleep in between, wake up, shower, and then pick up right where I left off until it was finished.  Reading, for me, is the ultimate form of escapism.  When you read, you see everything in your mind, and what you’re seeing is unique to you and your own imagination.  No one else in the world will see everything exactly as you do, which means that you’ve created something unique to yourself that no one else can experience or intrude upon.  In those moments, nothing else exists except that world you’re seeing within yourself.  There’s nothing better than that.  I do have responsibilities to catch up on today, but after talking about all this, I think it can all wait just a bit longer.  It’s been a long time since I’ve read a book.  Far too long in fact.  Life it to short to not spend it doing things that you love, and reading has always been one of the greatest loves of my life.  In fact, I think that’s exactly what I’m going to spend the rest of my morning doing.  Now I just need to figure out which world of imagination I want to lose myself in this time.

I will try to post more often.  I’m really going to try to make an effort to re-discover my love of various things that life has unfortunately stolen from me.

The January 2012 issue of Rogue Cinema is now online!

January 3rd, 2012   No Comments »

The January issue is up and running.  Hope you all enjoy it!  I’ll do a new blog post here soon as well.

http://www.roguecinema.com

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The December 2011 issue of Rogue Cinema is now online!

December 3rd, 2011   No Comments »

It’s a huge issue this month.  You can check out all the goodness right here. – http://www.roguecinema.com

An open letter to blu-ray film distributors…

November 22nd, 2011   1 Comment »

I’d like all of you media companies and distributors out there to tell me something.  Why should the consumer purchase your blu-ray products when you’re loading it down with so many protections and encryption schemes that they have to update their firmware on their players to even play some of the discs?  That means that the consumer is at the mercy of their player manufacturer’s ability to constantly produce new firmware, plus they have to hope that the updates will fix whatever’s causing their disc not to play, and if it doesn’t, it could be a month or more before the next firmware comes out.  Why should any consumer be expected to buy your movies if they won’t even be able to play them?

Case in point.  I was recently sent a copy of the new blu-ray release of Helldriver to review.  I put the disc in my standalone Samsung blu-ray player in the living room and tried to play it.  The laser in the player was going nuts, grinding away back and forth, while the video and audio kept pausing while the laser would try to re-sync itself.  Once I got into the movie itself, it played to a point, but every once in a while it would stop, re-sync and start again, and sometimes the audio would get out of sync and I’d have to stop it all together and then hit play again to get it to sync back up.  Then I figured, ok I’ll take it in and play it on the computer instead.  Of course the computer wouldn’t have a problem with playing it, right?  Wrong!  The computer was actually worse.  The video came up completely thrashed and blocky and the audio was jerky and stuttering.  At this point I figured, ok, I’ll contact the company and tell them I have a defective disc, as that’s all I could think it could be at that point, and in fact, it apparently was defective to some degree.  They sent me a replacement, which now appears to play ok in the standalone player, even though I do hear the laser scanning around before the menu, and I haven’t really tried to watch the full film yet.  So I figured, ok, this is a good copy.  I had done a firmware update between trying the old copy and the new one, so just to confirm it wasn’t a firmware issue, I tried to play the old one again.  It still had the same issues as before.  Ok, good.  Being a conscientious individual, I’d have felt bad if I had asked for a new copy when all I needed was a firmware update.  As it turns out, the original copy actually does have something wrong with it.

At this point, I took the new copy in and tried to play it on the computer.  Same issue as before with the bad copy.  It came up with garbled video and audio and played very haltingly, even freezing up PowerDVD 11 for various lengths of time.  Mind you, I have the latest codecs installed and the current version of PowerDVD, which plays other blu-ray discs just fine.  So what’s the problem here?  I don’t know what the problem is honestly.  I don’t know if it’s some funky new protection or encryption scheme they’re using or what, but that’s not the point.  The point is that I, as an end user, shouldn’t even have to think twice about it.  I should just be able to pop the disc in and have it play.  End of story, full stop.  When I have to worry about firmware updates, software player compatibility and other issues, it makes me not even want to own the product, much less blu-ray in general.  I can pop in DVDs and they work just fine with no problems or player issues whatsoever.  Why should an end user have to struggle to watch a film on blu-ray that they could just as easily watch on DVD with no problems, often for less money?

So to all you media companies out there struggling to come up with new protections and encryption schemes, I’m telling you all right now, stop it, or you’re going to kill any chance blu-ray has of gaining wider acceptance.  These schemes will be defeated by software, regardless of what you come out with, and it’s only making things harder and far more frustrating for the consumer, when all they want to do is to sit down, watch a film and relax without having to troubleshoot why this $25 disc they just purchased of their favorite new release won’t play properly in their player.

If you agree, or if you have blu-ray and have had to deal with issues like this, please feel free to comment here, and to write to the companies that produce these problematic releases.  The consumers need to be heard.

The November 2011 issue of Rogue Cinema is now online!

November 3rd, 2011   No Comments »

Hey folks, :)

The November issue of Rogue Cinema is now fully posted.  Here’s what we have for you this month!

Interviews:

Brooks Hunter

This Month’s Sleepover Girl:

Lisa Di Cappa has an enthusiasm that’s absolutely infectious.  I deal with a lot of people, but I absolutely love dealing with people like Lisa.  You can tell she absolutely loves what she does and really enjoys being involved in the industry.  This month, it’s my absolute pleasure to present our readers with this Italian-Canadian beauty.  Check out her feature to find out what makes her so aweome, and then all you film makers out there, make it a point to find a part for her in your next film! Thanks Lisa!

Articles:

Who Killed Teddy Bear?  Beats me, but I have the feeling Juliet Prowse and Sal Mineo were involved.  Poor Teddy. :(   Anyway, if you really want to know who killed teddy bear, check out Phil Smolen’s latest article all about this 1965 sleaze fest and find out.

Of Human Bondage sounds like it would be a kinky movie, but it’s really more about bondage of the heart, and being obsessed with someone you can’t have, no matter how cruel they are to you.  Sad really, but this month Jason S. Lockard decided to use his Classic Cinema article to depress the hell out of us by looking at a film that reminds us all of that one love we had that was never returned.  Thanks a lot Jason!

Phil Smolen takes a look back at the 1955 MGM film, Bad Day at Black Rock, starring a who’s who list of Hollywood greats.

It’s almost Thanksgiving again, and every year around this time, Danny Runion gets to thinking about what Thanksgiving dinner would be like when all the horror icons get together for a meal.  So here’s how he thinks it would be.

Plus reviews of:

- 13 – A Cult Influence
- Argyle
- Bad is Bad
- Bite Marks
- Captain America / Captain America II: Death Too Soon
- Dirty Pictures
- Downward
- Elysian
- Emasculation
- Girl./Girl. Scene
- Karma Touches Everyone
- Kenneyville
- Lost
- My Favorite Movie
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 Volume XXII
- Nazi Hunters
- Plastic – Returning the Screw
- Seoul Nights
- Stigma
- Thankskilling
- The Depression of Detective Downs 1 & 2
- The Inspector General
- The Woman
- Who’d Have Thought?
- Wingman Class
- Without a Home
- Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings
- Xtraction

Book Review:

- Abel Ferrara: The King of New York

So head on over to Rogue Cinema (http://www.roguecinema.com) and check out all the goodness in this month’s issue.

Hope you all enjoy it!

Well, Herman Cain has lost any and all support I may have given him. Who the hell’s left?

October 24th, 2011   No Comments »

I used to like Herman Cain.  I thought he was a good, intelligent and sincere man who cared about getting this country back on its feet, but I see now that I was mistaken.  So what changed my mind about him?  Well, here’s a list…

1. He has no foreign policy knowledge or experience whatsoever, and seems to stumble on even the simplest of foreign policy issues.  A man who isn’t truly aware of what’s going on in the world has no business even running for the office of president.  You have to know what kinds of people we’re dealing with, understand history, understand the mindset of different cultures and have some clue as to how to deal with foreign policy issues.  He has none of those, and nor does our current muslim-loving, apologist in chief who has caused serious damage between us and our allies, and has done dramatic damage to our relationship with Israel.  We don’t need another foreign policy idiot in the White House.

2. His 9-9-9 plan started out as a 9-9-9 plan, and now it’s got exceptions and he keeps changing things around, and this was a plan that was supposedly come up with by the best economists he could find.  If that’s the kind of people he surrounds himself with, then once again, he has no business being president.  We have enough of that crap going on with the current one.  This plan, in any case, leaves a gaping hole for government to continue to raise our taxes while at the same time wasting countless billions, and even trillions of dollars in taxpayer money.

3. His recent comments about abortion and gay marriage.  I was impressed that, even though he was once a minister, he had left social issues out of his campaign.  This is as it should be.  By their very nature, social issues are social, and government has no business sticking its nose in them whatsoever.  Now he’s taken the utterly moronic position that he’s against abortion in ALL circumstances and against gay marriage and would sign constitutional amendments to ban both.  Seriously, this complete lack of respect for our constitution, and his willingness to subvert its grand plan to accommodate the drooling masses of religious idiots in this country, is the very same reason I pulled my support from Bachmann.  WE DO NOT, NOR SHOULD WE EVER LIVE IN A THEOCRACY, NOR SHOULD WE ASPIRE TO!  Yet, that is what we’ll be left with should the brainwashed masses get their way.  We all have to live in this country.  Abortion is a personal issue that no one has any business whatsoever sticking their nose into.  I don’t give two squats if your idiotic religion tells you that life begins at conception.  It doesn’t.  Cell division begins at conception, and until that fetus is capable of actually thinking, it’s nothing but a collection of cells.  Don’t even get me started on the whole moronic stem-cell and respecting the sanctity of life crap.  Gay marriage is again a personal issue.  No one has ANY right to tell someone who they can love or spend their life with, much less the government.  Gays pay taxes, work in our society, and even serve in the military.  They’re just like the rest of us.  They’re Americans, living in the same cities and towns, obeying the same laws, and are governed by the same constitution, that should NEVER be corrupted by the societal whims of a religious majority.  That would be nationalized discrimination, much as it would be if all of a sudden all the white people in this country decided that all black people should be slaves again and got a constitutional amendment passed saying that slavery was once again legal.

So who’s left?

I pulled my support from Bachmann for her theocratic stand on social issues, and it sickens me that she claims to represent the Tea Party, which was never about social issues at all.  I did support Gary Johnson for a while, until his comments after we killed Osama Bin Laden.  Ron Paul is a crazy ass old goat who would totally screw our relationships with our allies, Rick Perry is another moronic theocrat, and Newt Gingrich is too blinded by religion and has too many skeletons in his closet (i.e. adultery and ethics violations) to be president.

That leaves me with one choice – Mitt Romney.  Would he have been my first choice?  No way in hell, but I would vote for him a million times over that big eared, utterly corrupt, undeniably inept, lying and narcissistic turd we have in office right now.

People in politics are too filtered to really tell it like it is.  I’m not in politics, so I’ll say whatever the hell I think, and if they don’t like it, then too bad.  That goes for anyone who doesn’t like what I just said.  There’s been enough political correctness in this country.  It’s time to call a spade a spade, and these people need to be called out on their BS.

Hell, maybe I should run for office.  People need a good bitch slap of reality once in a while, and they’re sure as hell not getting it from any of our current crop of special interest owned douche bags.  When you care more about getting re-elected and raising campaign money than you do about telling the truth and doing what’s best for this country and our people, and upholding the constitution that you’ve sworn to uphold, then you have NO business being in office.  Period.

Ok, that’s my rant for the night.  I’m just sickened by this whole thing.  Last time we had that idiot McCain running because it was “his turn”, and now we have a crop of people running that remind me more of something that should be scraped off my shoe after a walk in the park than of anyone who should be holding elective office, much less the presidency.

Ok, my little bitch session is over.  Feels good to unload once in a while.  I have some other stuff going on, but I’ll save that for another post.

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Holy crap, it’s been a while!

October 11th, 2011   No Comments »

Yeah I know, it’s been a hell of a long time since my last post.  I’ve had a whole lot of stuff going on in my personal life that’s been keeping me busy and I haven’t really had anything that inspired me to sit down and write about it.  Then today…I saw it.

Today…well, yesterday now, was Columbus Day.  This day has different meanings for different people.  Here are a few…

  • The lazy ass bankers and government employees get a day off.
  • The snotty liberals get to whine and post their snide comments about how we stole land from the Indians.
  • Some people appreciate and remember Columbus for his exploits as an explorer.
  • Some people wonder why they didn’t get any damn mail, and then someone reminds them that it’s Columbus Day.
  • Some people watch TV, fart and scratch themselves while pondering the meaning of existence.

So what got me irritated was that a liberal acquaintance of mine on Facebook shared an image that said, “Let’s celebrate Columbus Day by walking into someone else’s house and telling them that we live there now.”

Now this got me to thinking.  What would this country look like right now if the Europeans had never come over to colonize it?  Cast your mind for a moment and think about that.  You don’t really have to, because you can see it if you look at the state of present day Indian reservations and the conditions their people live in.  They were given massive amounts of land, and the only people that really seem to prosper are those that are involved in the Indian casinos and the tribal organizations that have been sucking the tit of the US government for well over a century, if not longer.  They had all that land, but what did they do with it?  Industry?  Not really.  Higher centers of learning?  Again, not so much.  Advancements in science?  I guess if you consider getting drunk and blacking out “alcohol research”, you could make that stretch.  Other than that, not really.

Now, let’s look at what the US has given the world because it was settled and things happened the way they did.  Innovations in virtually every field known to man, advancements in medicine, science, agriculture, construction, communications, travel, etc….  What was the one huge thing that we did for the world?  I mean, the biggest thing this country has done for mankind?  We were a major player in defeating Adolph Hitler, who unchecked and without our help in stopping him, would not only have conquered the world, including the Indians, but he would have wiped the Jewish people as well as homosexuals, blacks and numerous other races, right off the face of the Earth.

So the next time you hear someone whining about Columbus Day and how unfair the colonization of America was to the Indians, maybe you should remind them that if it wasn’t for that, then very likely there wouldn’t be any Indians here right now to bitch about it.

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Now, on to a different subject.  My burnout had become so overwhelming that I really needed a break from things, and for something different to happen in my personal life.  That change came when a friend of mine came and stayed with us for a few weeks.  Not only did we go to the Def Leppard concert, which was awesome as hell (front row seats baby!!!), but we started playing a whole lot of pool together.  I have always loved pool, but I hadn’t played seriously in quite some time.  We made it an almost daily thing, and he even bought us each our own stick, which was awesome.  Well, he’s gone now, but several good things came of that.  First, my wife got really into playing as well, and I bought her her own stick, which she absolutely loves.  Second, while we were playing at the place we played pool at, we were served one day by this SUPER nice girl named Melanie.  We kept going back there for a long time after and became regulars, and also became more and more friendly with Melanie.  Now she doesn’t work there any more, but my wife and I just went out with Melanie and her husband Sunday night to play pool, and we had a phenomenal time!  She’s also an excellent singer, so I talked to her about putting something together musically and she was really up for it, so hopefully we’ll get that going.  More exciting though, is that after eleven years of living here, we’ve actually met some really nice people we can be friends with.  Meeting new friends is damn near impossible once you’re an adult.  People are so wrapped up in their own lives, problems, kids, etc…, that they generally aren’t too interested in adding new friends to their circle.  Plus, it’s just generally hard to meet good people that you really hit it off with.  So we’re really happy we met Melanie, and her husband is also a super nice guy that we both like a lot.  So hopefully things will continue to progress and we’ll actually have some new friends.

I’ve also gotten back to weight lifting.  I hadn’t done it in a long time, and it really showed.  I had gotten soft, my joints hurt when I walked, etc….  Now I’m tightened up again and getting bigger and harder every day.  It feels great to be back to my old self again.  I still need to lose a bunch of weight, but my muscle structure is coming back to what it was and I’m feeling awesome.  Between that, new friends and new activities, I’m actually feeling less burned out, so hopefully this trend will continue.

Anyway, that’s it for now.  I’ll try to post more often.

  (Current Mood: boredbored)

The October 2011 issue of Rogue Cinema is now online!

October 4th, 2011   No Comments »

Hey folks, :)

Due to a variety of personal issues, the October issue was posted a few days late.  For that I sincerely apologize.  Still, it’s up now, and here’s what we have for you this month…

Interviews:

Jerry Cavallaro
Theresa Meeker
Ryan Pickett
Kacey Barnfield

This Month’s Sleepover Girl:

Michelle Shields is a young actress/model who is totally driven and focused with her career. She has been involved in many different kinds of projects from films to TV, to comic books to print. She has a very impressive resume which includes major blockbusters like ‘The Dark Knight’ to the highly anticipated ‘Frankenstein: Day of the Beast’. Born and raised in the Chicago-land area she has always had a love for movies, film making, and acting. She has gotten a lot of attention from fans, not only for her talent, but also for her sweet and sincere attitude. She is always in a great mood, ready to work, and professional in every regard.

Articles:

Philip Smolen takes a look at some of the cheap Alien rip-offs that emerged after the film Alien hit the theaters in 1977.

Halloween is the time for scary movies, but independent filmmaker, Jason S. Lockard, suggests you check out a comedy gem featuring star of the month John Alexander 1944′s Arsenic and Old Lace!

Danny Runion gives his thoughts on what it’s like when various horror icons try their hand at literature.

Plus reviews of:

- A Thin Camel
- American Harmony
- Arrgh! A Pirate Story
- Bicycle Day
- Bridesmaids
- Caroline of Virginia
- Dracula: The Vampire and the Voivode
- Frankenhooker
- George: A Zombie Intervention
- Inch of Grace
- Into the Pit: The Shocking Story of Deadpit.com
- Leon’s Broken Mind
- Live From Tokyo
- Lunopolis
- Maniac Cop
- More Perfect Union
- Scream 4
- South of Heaven
- The Feed
- The Hills Have Eyes
- The Howling Reborn
- The Pee Wee Herman Show on Broadway
- The Scanner
- The Secret Friend
- Underground Entertainment: The Movie
- Waterbody
- White Blossoms
- X-Men: First Class

Television Reviews:

- Raising Hope Season 1
- The Walking Dead 3-Disc Special Edition

So head on over to Rogue Cinema (http://www.roguecinema.com) and check out all the goodness in this month’s issue.

Hope you all enjoy it!

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The September 2011 issue of Rogue Cinema is now online!

September 2nd, 2011   No Comments »

Hey folks, :)

The September issue of Rogue Cinema has now been posted.  Here’s what we have for you this month…

Interviews:

Christopher Dennis and Larry Longstreth
Richard Atkinson

This Month’s Sleepover Girl:

Cindy Maples has a lot of talents, and has been honing her skills since the 6th grade! She’s an actress, a model and a great cook as well! She started out 33 years ago in 6th grade speech competitions, performing Abbot & Costello and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Telltale Heart. She studied Mass Communications and Theater at Southern Illinois University, is currently working on Wireface, and just wrapped production on The Birthday Massacre. We’re very proud and honored to be able to add her to our wonderful roster of Sleepover Girls this month. Thanks so much Cindy!

Articles:

This month, Cary Conley writes about a filmmaker he thinks isn’t known widely enough nor gets enough credit for his influence in genre pictures. Val Lewton, RKO’s master of horror, was active for only a handful of years. But during those few years, he produced nine horror films that show some of the most consistent quality of any series in film. Given impossible budgets, very short time frames, and saddled with studio rules, Lewton didn’t just turn out low-budget product, but high quality product that was acclaimed by critics and loved by audiences. He singlehandedly kept RKO afloat in the 1940′s.

Phil Smolen has long been enamoured with science fiction films, and this month he takes a look at some of the great films that took us to that mystical orb in the sky that we like to call, The Moon.

Niagra Falls! Slowly I turned, step by step… No, it’s not the Three Stooges comedy bit. Actually, it’s this month’s Classic Cinema feature from Jason S. Lockard all about the 1941 comedy, Niagra Falls, starring ZaSu Pitts.

More great movie mashups from Danny Runion this month. Take a look at what he’s pulled out of the ol’ cinematic cement mixer this time!

Plus reviews of:

- 15: An Exploration of Human Violence
- A Horrible Way to Die
- Bountiful
- Cleaners
- Dead Cert
- Decalogue
- Dual
- Fetish Dolls Die Laughing
- Frat House Massacre
- Grotesque
- Gunderson’s
- Hoodwinked Too: Hood vs. Evil
- I Spit on Your Grave
- iCrime
- Indemnity
- Marty and Doug’s New Religion
- MST3K Presents Manos: The Hands of Fate
- Posthuman: Episode 5
- Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
- Psychoville – Red Cliff – Sex Crime & Punishment
- Stuck Like Chuck
- Super Hybrid
- The Death of Andy Kaufman
- The Despair
- The Exit Door
- The Exterminator
- The Fall and Rise of Mickey: A Headcase Prequel
- The Feed
- The Hide
- The Morning Bitch
- The Teacher’s Lounge
- Todd and the Book of Pure Evil
- Trail of Blood
- Unknown Rockstar
- Wide Open
- Wireface: In the Beginning
- Witch’s Brew
- Worked For Me

Television Reviews:

- Camelot: The Complete First Season
- Spartacus: Gods of the Arena

So head on over to Rogue Cinema (http://www.roguecinema.com) and check out all the goodness in this month’s issue.

Hope you all enjoy it!

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The August 2011 issue of Rogue Cinema is now online!

August 3rd, 2011   1 Comment »

Hey folks, :)

After some necessary delays due to personal issues, the August 2011 issue of Rogue Cinema has now been fully posted.  Here’s what we have for you this month…

Interviews:

Tim Thomerson (Part 1 of a two part interview by Nic Brown)

This Month’s Sleepover Girl:

Tiffany Apan is an award winning singer, songwriter, composer, actress, artist, model, dancer and writer. With that much going on, I have no clue how she manages to find time for anything else!  This month, Tiffany makes her return to Rogue Cinema as our August Sleepover Girl, and we’re super glad to have her back.  Click on through to check out her latest Sleepover Girl feature and to get a full accounting of what this multi-talented artist has been up to.

Articles:

Phil Smolen went to Catholic school as a kid, which might just have something to do with why he’s called his latest classic cinema quiz, “Sister Evalda’s Classic Summertime Sci-Fi/Horror Movie Quiz”.  Man, that’s a mouthful now isn’t it?  Anyway, take the quiz and see how you rate with your classic cinema trivia knowledge!

In 1950 a small production company produced one of the most unique films of its time.  In this month’s Classic Cinema article, independent film maker Jason S. Lockard brings us that film – D.O.A..

There are five places you wouldn’t want to be caught dead in when it comes to horror films, because if you were caught in them, that’s likely exactly how you’ll end up.  Dead.  This month, Danny Runion has put together an article detailing these five deadly locations, so the next time you find yourself in a situation that seems very much like it belongs in a horror movie, you’ll know what places to avoid.

Plus reviews of:

- 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 0 – null, eins, zwei, drei, eins, null
- Bloodlust Zombies
- Bloody Moon
- Blue Highway
- Crepuscule
- Desperate Measures
- Dogs Lie
- Donnie Darko 10th Anniversary Edition
- Evil Things
- Exit 33
- Fanex Files: Hammer Films
- Fanex Files: Samuel Z. Arkoff
- Green Valley
- Inspector Drake: The Movie
- Linda
- Masters of Horror: Pelts
- Miral
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 XXI – MST3K vs. Gamera
- Nathan Davis Still Lives
- Never Feed the Troll
- Seymour Sally Rufus
- Slashdance
- Stalked
- Stringoi
- Take Me Home Tonight
- Teach’er
- The Beast Within
- The Boogeyman
- The Coffin
- The Creepy Doll
- The Dead and the Damned
- The Hostile Takeover
- The Man in the Cellar
- The Song of King Solomon
- The Stolen Wings
- Waiter from Hell
- War Paint

Book review:

- Dario Argento

So head on over to Rogue Cinema (http://www.roguecinema.com) and check out all the goodness in this month’s issue.

Hope you all enjoy it!

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